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Elastically vs Plastically - What's the difference?

elastically | plastically |

As adverbs the difference between elastically and plastically

is that elastically is in an elastic manner while plastically is in a plastic way; through moulding; flexibly.

elastically

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In an elastic manner

    • plastically

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a plastic way; through moulding; flexibly.
  • * 2004 , (Richart Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 85:
    • They have been turned into parallel sausages, telling you that the whole outcrop of rock must have been extended – stretched plastically on some kind of tectonic rack.